Re: Don't buy a Cadillac
- From: KotP-A <salmonremovebait@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:51:00 -0400
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:33:42 -0400, gfretwell@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:11:15 -0400, KotP-A
<salmonremovebait@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:00:56 -0400, gfretwell@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:39:18 -0600, "SteveB" <oldfart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
<gfretwell@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I probably told you about my father in law's new CTX.
Well 3 months in he can't keep the battery charged. If he doesn't
drive it every day the battery dies.The GM answer, Keep it on a
charger if you plan on parking it more than 2 days! (they gave him a
charger)
I did some looking on the net and dead batteries in caddys goes on and
on with all sorts of stories on some of the message boards about what
the sleeping load is and how getting more than a week out of it is
asking a lot. Evidently there is a whole lot of electronics in that
car that never turns off.
WTF??? Who wants a car you can't park for a few weeks and expect to
start?
To make matters worse, the "hear you coming" feature in the fob turns
every light on in the car when you walk up to it, so a marginal
battery that may have had a chance if all you did was start the car,
is not going to get it done.
When my wife went to buy a new car, she wanted one that would only unlock
the driver's door, and not all doors with the first click of the fob.
You're in a parking lot, and you want to dive in the driver's door. So, on
some cars, you had to open every door, allowing whoever was on the other
side of the car to get in, too. She had to shop for a while. This was
years back. SOME companies have changed this. My 2006 Ram has multiple
clicks for opening one door or all of them. It's a bitch that with all this
electronic know how, there is not a little panel where the user can set
these things according to their lifestyles/safety concerns/kids or no/etc.
Steve
That is a programmable option on a Ford but I can't think of any car I
have rented that unlocked all the doors on the first click of the fob.
(Subarus, Fords, Chryslers and a most recently Jeep) They all just
unlocked the driver's door. A second click got the rest.
When I first got my 4Runner, it took two clicks to unlock all doors.
That drove me up a wall. I had them change that and several other
options. Now one click unlocks everything.
We rented a GM (suburban) with all the doodads and you did all this
through the DIC (Driver Information Center), the computer interface
screen.
There were dozens (hundreds?) of screens you could look at and lots of
options you could change. That was the rental we put 2300 miles on
(the Dakotas trip). We changed lots of stuff but there were two
people, a driver and a DIC operator
It makes my wonder how many crashes are caused by people driving while
playing with their DIC.
Yeah we had a lot of DIC jokes by the time we got back to Rapid City.
That's kind of like the 4Runner, but I can't change anything myself.
There is an instrument the service guy hooks up to a connector under
the dash, and then the screens show up on the instrument. They didn't
charge me anything to make the changes, so at least that much was
nice.
.
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